PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe was on Friday forced to accept the January Sadc Summit Communiqué that eventually led to the formation of the coalition as a binding document, sources revealed yesterday.
Finance Minister Tendai Biti has broken ranks with MDC-T and has been advocating the lifting of the illegal sanctions that the West imposed on Zimbabwe, documents at hand show.
Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) last night ended its boycott of the new unity government but will give President Robert Mugabe a month to fully implement a power- sharing deal, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said.
MDC-T's presumptuous disengagement resolution is meant to taint their partner Zanu-PF as strange bedfellows, with no moral principles.
THE farm ownership wrangle involving a Reserve Bank deputy governor and a Chinhoyi commercial farmer turned bloody last week after a man shot and seriously injured five workers and assaulted several others.
IN a move with damaging implications for investment, Zimbabwe plans to grab a 51% stake in foreign-owned firms within 60 days of the gazetting of the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act regulations, documents in the possession of the Zimbabwe Independent show.
President Mugabe has assured the nation that he will not allow MDC-T's "disengagement" from the inclusive Government to affect State operations.
EVERY nation has founding values and ethos that all in leadership are expected to uphold and defend and these values constitute the bedrock of the nationhood the leadership pledges allegiance to when taking the oath of office.
ZANU-PF has accused MDC-T of working with the country's Western detractors to undermine national values.
A regional summit to try and break an impasse that threatens to bring down Zimbabwe's unity government is set for neighbouring Mozambique.
I FELT very sad when I read the article by Allister Sparks in the Business Day October 31 edition (which the Zimbabwe Independent carried on October 30) headed "Time for Zuma to stand up to Mugabe". Though I have never met him, I know that Sparks is a senior and experienced South African journalist. Because of this I have always expected that he would consistently respect the truth in everything ...
Sadc leaders yesterday convinced MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai to end his party's "disengagement" from the inclusive Government following a mini regional summit here.
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) says it is pinning its hopes on a ministerial team from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to help resolve the political situation there.
THE Western alliance's reaction to the abortive presidential run-off in Afghanistan should show all who were led to believe that Anglo-Saxon opposition to President Mugabe's re-election was about the professed platitudes of electoral democracy, that they were sold a dead donkey.
As the Zimbabwe crisis nosedives once again, it should be noted that the Zuma Administration bears a particular responsibility for what has gone wrong with the power-sharing agreement the Zimbabwean political parties entered into eight months ago. It is therefore under a special obligation to take action to resolved the crisis.
